Amazon RDS Service Primer

Explore the core capabilities of Amazon RDS

Explore Amazon RDS and its role in cloud environments, moving from core features, benefits, terminology, and use cases to billing, security strategies, AWS service integration, and a practical service demonstration.

Discover how Amazon RDS fits into the AWS ecosystem

Connect the key concepts through a service demonstration, developing a clearer understanding of how Amazon RDS functions, integrates with AWS services, and supports practical cloud database needs.

You’ll access learning content and practical activities online through Amazon Web Services (AWS), alongside your FutureLearn course experience, giving you direct access to AWS learning as you progress.

This course is ideal for IT professionals, data platform engineers, database developers, and solutions architects.

This course is ideal for IT professionals, data platform engineers, database developers, and solutions architects.

• List the purpose of the service and its function
• Summarize the benefits of the service
• Recall how the service works
• Identify use cases for the service
• Recognize how the service is billed
• Recall how to get additional information on the service
• Clarify how this service integrates with other services
• Summarize the relevant terminology associated with this service
• Identify security strategies used by this service